"Your mother, give Lao Tzu such a group of military households before the Spring Festival." Chen Xin, who is a talented general, looked at the group of military households named Huazi in front of him and complained to Liu Minyou in a low voice, this is the twenty households that Yang Yunnong allocated to him, there are men and women of all ages, young and old, and the only one is that there is no strong man, the standard 613860 troops.

Liu Minyou also scratched his head, only some of these women can do some work, with Chen Xin's character, they will definitely not be given a monthly salary, but the people have already been divided, how to arrange them has become a big burden, Chen Xin didn't expect this when he was a person, he thought that there was an adult man in a household, and now the result is estimated that all the five guarantee households in Weihaiwei have come here to concentrate.

Liu Min had thought about it for a long time and had no idea, he had a good heart, but after coming to the Ming Dynasty, he saw too many people who suffered, and he didn't want to suffer this dumb loss, so he leaned into Chen Xin's ear and said, "Director Chen, can you return it in three days?" ”

Chen Xin said angrily: "These people were brought by Song Wenxian when he forced Yang Yunnong, anyway, you are in charge of civil affairs, you can see if you can do it." ”

Liu Minyou looked at the smoke of the cooking in the distance, and suddenly said: "With your Director Chen's shrewdness, don't be blinded by immediate interests, these people are the poorest people, if they can live a good life, what will Weihaiwei and the poor people around them think?" ”

"You mean?"

"Brand value."

Chen Xin breathed slowly and sighed: "Now I can only think so, but they can't live, they can only go to the shack first, and now they can't find a craftsman for the New Year, and they will repair it after the New Year, and they will start to calculate the sailor's house, and the sailor's house will be repaired by the port, and they will be repaired together at that time." ”

Liu Min couldn't bear to say: "What if they look like they live in a shack and die of cold?"

"It doesn't matter, they've been suffering for so many years, and it's not too late. Let them eat every day, but you have to arrange for them to work. ”

Liu Minyou stared at the large area of abandoned land in front of him, and there were some ditches in the middle, but they had been washed away by the rain or blocked by mud. "Then let them repair the water conservancy."

"I don't care, I can't let them be idle anyway."

Liu Minyou rolled his eyes, there were a lot of civil affairs matters, how could he be idle, he arranged for the logistics team to do chores for the people who repaired the house, and reduced some wages, so the women organized themselves to do his old job, bought cloth and cotton, made new clothes for the New Year for everyone, and prepared to make a batch of spring and summer clothes for the army. To meet Chen Xin's so-called sense of honor.

Now that these people are coming, they just need to repair water conservancy, and the labor force can always do some first, this abandoned land is quite far away from the Qincun River, and it has to pass through a piece of familiar land in the middle of Mazidun, and this matter has to be discussed with Gong Pingkang. He looked at the group of Hanako in front of him again, and they all looked at him numbly, remembering that they were being thrown around like commodities, and felt really pitiful.

Liu Minyou coughed, called the soldiers of the two logistics teams, and took this group of people to the shack area, he really wanted them to live in a brick house, but the current conditions are limited, Chen Xin will definitely not treat these useless people badly.

There was a burst of firecrackers from the Mazidun in the distance, and Liu Minyou said to Chen Xin: "What do you think about the first Spring Festival in Daming?" ”

"Thoughts? Well, there's no need for the Spring Festival. ”

With that, Chen Xin walked up the hillside.

Liu Minyou said behind his back: "What are you doing?" ”

"I'll let people set off firecrackers, too!"

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"Bang bang bang!"

The edge of the woods was filled with smoke, and ten bird-stalkers had just completed a salvo into the woods.

Zhu Guobin shouted: "Take the fire rope." The squad leader checks the tinder. ”

Ten bird gunners took off the rope at the same time and clamped it between their left fingers.

"Clear the fire gate!"

Again, the bird used a rag to wipe the fire door clean, so that the remaining sparks would not detonate a new primer.

"Erection guns." ……

"Take the cartridge." ……

"Take the cap."

"Backshot."

"Open the bomb bag."

"Reload."

"Twitch rod."

"Compact."

"Swing back the bar."

"Flat gun."

"Take the medicine pot."

"Open the lid."

"Invert the medicine."

"Turn off the fire door cover."

"Close the lid."

"Check the arquebus." ……

Zhu Guobin issued one command after another, and the bird soldiers all neatly followed the instructions, once someone made a mistake, the sea dog and the captain next to him went up to beat him with a stick, and everyone nervously recalled the action.

After Zhong Laosi's incident that day, everyone knew that the instructor couldn't be provoked, Zhong Laosi was not only beaten by the military stick and lay down for three days, but also deducted a whole tael of silver, and now he still comes to help them wash the toilet every day, and the sea dog was only fined a little silver. So now the only way to avoid mistakes, although the training intensity is very high, but every day to eat and wear without worry, at least a meal of meat every day, they are all long-term hardship and tired, no one has felt more bitter than the original.

Chen Xin looked at their neat movements, and finally felt better, he broke down the movements, and had specific requirements for each action, that is, to standardize the training, train these soldiers into machine people, the daily queue training and stick beating have made them have a good discipline, and now they are being asked to memorize the terms of military discipline and their respective weapons drills.

He set different training goals according to different branches of the army, and constantly improved the drill code, so that he could produce soldiers like an assembly line in the future. At the same time, Europe had completed Morris's military reform, and the standing army's long-range strikes had been dominated by muskets, and one of Morris's major contributions to the reform was to formulate standardized training drills for the first time, both of which Chen Xin is now doing.

He re-set the training goal according to some of his own understanding, the assessment standard of the bird gun hand is not how accurate it is, but the standard range of action and the speed of firing, the pursuit of accuracy with the arquebus smoothbore gun of this era is tantamount to seeking fish from the wood, although Qi Jiguang's training standard is one hundred steps to hit the humanoid target, but Chen Xin gave up this goal after many tests, he doesn't know if Qi Jiguang can achieve this standard, he only believes in the results of his own test, maybe Qi Jiguang's bird gun really does better.

Chen Xin's goal is to let the bird gun hand as much as possible to launch as many projectiles as possible, forming a greater density, if the Ming Dynasty bird gun is qualified, the gun tube is qualified, in the hundred steps to the non-armor target has lethality, but most of the projectile is not qualified, the projectile is also mostly not closed, the operation of the zài pressure medicine is too solid, too much too little, the ignition hole is blocked, poor maintenance and other problems, so it is often not as good as the bow and arrow range. Moreover, because of the corruption of officials at all levels, the materials used are becoming less and less, and the walls of the guns are extremely thin, and they explode as soon as they are used, causing soldiers to be afraid to use them. He asked Lord Zhong for 300 catties of gunpowder in Dengzhou, but he didn't know whether it was gunpowder or gunpowder (Note 1), and after testing it a few times, he blew up a one, and finally set the standard of charge, if the gunpowder formula used next time was different, it would need to be changed, so it was necessary to produce gunpowder by himself.

Fortunately, Tang Zuoxiang made three new firearms, and just sent ten soldiers, a team plus captains and firefighters, twelve people, plus Zhu Guobin, an archer, which is Chen Xin's entire long-range strike force. However, it is still weak, Qi Jiguang's long-range strike force means are much richer, firearms and equipment are close to fifty percent, and the composition of long-range strike means is a bird gun with 100 steps, a rocket at 80 steps, and a bow and arrow at 50 steps, and the closer the enemy is, the more attacks he will encounter, and the enemy can be weakened as much as possible before hand-to-hand combat. Chen Xin is now monotonous and lacking in firepower.

At this time, the second round of shooting was completed, and everyone listened to the command and stood up, and Chen Xin called Zhu Guobin with satisfaction.

"Trainer Zhu."

"Your Excellency." Zhu Guobin ran over, stood up according to Chen Xinding's standard movements, put his right hand flat on his chest, and gave a military salute. Chen Xin had already abolished the prostration in the army, believing that as long as there was a system of monthly salaries and strict military discipline, there was no need for such prostrations to increase his authority.

"The Bird Soldier has trained well, and the inspection is passed, you can continue."

"Yes, sir."

After Chen Xin finished speaking, he returned a military salute, turned around and went to the other side of the mountain to inspect the drill of the killer team. At present, the firearms team and the killer team are not proficient, and they have not practiced together, and they are all trained separately.

When he arrived with the fur dogs, the four killer teams were practicing the offensive and defensive conversion of the mandarin duck formation under the leadership of Dai Zhenggang, and Chen Xin's position was slightly higher, and he could clearly see the formation change. He carefully read the new book of Ji Xiao and the actual record of military training, and the formations were all drawn by himself, but it was the first time to watch it directly on the spot.

He looked at it, and suddenly remembered a tactic in later generations, and looked at it for a while, although it was not all the same, but the concept was the same. He thought about the extraordinary person a few decades ago, and couldn't help but sigh: "Qi Shao is really a general's talent." ”

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Note 1: In the two books of "Xifa Shenji" and "Soldiers" at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there are gunpowder formulas according to their uses, and there are many contents, which will be explained in detail later.